5th November anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1605
  • Great Britain
  • "Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)"
  • 1927
  • Great Britain
  • 1st traffic lights start to operate in UK
  • 1968
  • Richard Nixon was elected 37th President of the United States .
  • 1968
  • Shirley Chisholm of New York became the first African-American woman to be elected to the US Congress.
  • 1969
  • "Bobby Seale, American founder of the Black Panthers, was sentenced to four years in prison for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago"
  • 1975
  • Sex Pistols play 1st ever gig
  • 1994
  • Former US President Ronald Reagan revealed that he was suffering from Alzheimers disease
  • 1999
  • US Federal District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft enjoyed monopoly power in the computer operating systems market and was stifling innovation and hurting consumers
• Death
  • 1807
  • "Death of Angelica Kauffman, Swiss born painter and one of the 36 founder members of the Royal Academy."
  • 1979
  • "Death of Al Capp, American cartoonist, created the comic strip Lil Abner"
  • 1982
  • France
  • "Death of Jacques Tati, French actor and film director (Noted for his 'Monsieur Hulot' comedies)" more
  • 1989
  • "Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American classical pianist"
  • 1991
  • Robert Maxwell drowns at sea
  • 1997
  • "Death of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British philosopher, historian, lecturer and essayist (Founder of the discipline of intellectual history)"